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Management Ange Postecoglou

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whenstevewentup said:
That Brendan Rogers fella is doing a decent job !
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he's always been a really good coach. In the right circs he'd do a far better job here than Ange. ie keep him on the training ground, and give him a lot of help with transfers in. At LFC by the end his picks were pretty poor.

Also if he'd just been the coach at LFC rather than the manager that season, I reckon they'd have won the PL. Needed a cool head. Pressure of managing rather than coaching got to him.
 
TOZ said:
The most favourable for him scenario is that he is just the unluckiest football manager I've ever seen. And that's exactly opposite of what we need.
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This is another thing. He's either totally incompetent, extremely unlucky, or both. Either way he needs to fuck off quickly.

They say you can either be a good football manager, or a lucky one. Ange is neither. If he's actually a good football manager, but just really unlucky, well that's still not good enough ultimately. We don't need that around the club. (I don't think he's good, in fact he's atrocious)
 
I really can't wait for this cloud to be lifted.

Frustratingly though, I can't see it being any earlier than Monday. There's no way does he get sacked tonight on the way home from Germany. We could get absolutely humiliated out there and I can't see a way that he gets sacked before his prezzer tomorrow for the game on Sunday.
 
Matt1882 said:
I really can't wait for this cloud to be lifted.

Frustratingly though, I can't see it being any earlier than Monday. There's no way does he get sacked tonight on the way home from Germany. We could get absolutely humiliated out there and I can't see a way that he gets sacked before his prezzer tomorrow for the game on Sunday.
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Gareth Southgate is clearing his diary for February as we speak……..,,,,
 
Aphex said:
'Since the end of last season Tottenham’s medical and sports science departments have undergone significant change. It all started when Geoff Scott left his position as head of medicine and sports science in the summer. It ended a 20-year association with Spurs for Scott who became their head physio in 2004 after leaving Fulham. He worked under 11 different managers including Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and Postecoglou.

Scott left Spurs after clashing with Postecoglou. Sources with knowledge of the situation, who asked to remain anonymous to protect relationships, say that the pair fell out over how to manage the first-team squad’s workload and the recovery of injured players. However, the club insists that Scott’s departure did not involve Ange Postecoglou and was instead a result of the review and restructure of the department.'

Deary me. Looks like Trix's info was spot on. Three members of the medical team left Spurs after someone at the club (Ange) didn't like what they were telling him about managing the injuries.

I'm sorry but yet more evidence that we have employed a total fucking fraud bluffer, who has no idea how to manage a elite PL team and we're a fucking mess because of it.

Just sack the cunt.
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Our medical department were shit under this Scott’s watch too. We have said about that for years so maybe he should shut his mouth and look at his own performance. We’ve mismanaged injuries for as long as I can remember.
 
Aphex said:
He gambled on both our starting centrebacks, despite medical team telling him they weren't fit, and subsequently they both get injured for another 2 months of the season. Subsequently three members of our medical team left the club and were paid off, because Ange didn't like what they were telling him about his shoddy practices no doubt. We even have the Athletic writing articles about it.

Can you show me when that happened under previous managers such as Jose?
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You’re supposing stuff from bits and pieces there to fit an overall narrative. The Athletic article only says:

“Sources familiar with the situation, who asked to remain anonymous to protect relationships, say that the medical staff had reservations about Van de Ven’s readiness to play.”

How many times have we seen players thrown into big games when they were not totally fit? Poch playing Kane in the CL final being the most notorious example.

Here’s Jose on his philosophy:

"In every sport – and I know because I have friends and they play at the highest level in other sports – how many times you play and you are not 100%," he said. "I have a friend that is a big tennis player, he tells me he remembers more the times he played with pain than the times he played without any pain. To compete you have to go to the limits. It’s a cultural thing for some and that’s not my culture.

And we saw in All Or Nothing how he was giving Geoff Scott a mental breakdown over injured players.

I’m sure Ange wishes he could take back pickng both for the Chelsea game. It was a bad call, no doubt about it. But sport is high pressure and it does strange things to decision making. He wasn’t the first and won’t be the last manager to do it.
 
WillWilliams said:
Gareth Southgate is clearing his diary for February as we speak……..,,,,
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That might just be the one name in World football that makes me think sticking with Ange is the right move.

Just as hapless on a coaching/tactical level, minus the nice idea of wanting to play attacking football, and a chasm of personality so vast that it would be an insult to the delightful flavour of vanilla to label him vanilla.

I've been quite adamant that there are few people that could be doing a worse job of managing Spurs right now, but he's definitely one of the elite few.
 
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